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The Mystique of Transmission - On an Early Chan History and Its Context (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,597
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The Mystique of Transmission - On an Early Chan History and Its Context (Hardcover): Wendi Adamek

The Mystique of Transmission - On an Early Chan History and Its Context (Hardcover)

Wendi Adamek

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"The Mystique of Transmission" is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the "Lidai fabao ji" ( "Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations"), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the eighth-century Chan master Wuzhu in Sichuan.

Chinese religions scholar Wendi Adamek compares the "Lidai fabao ji" with other sources from the fourth through eighth centuries, chronicling changes in the doctrines and practices involved in transmitting medieval Chinese Buddhist teachings. While Adamek is concerned with familiar Chan themes like patriarchal genealogies and the ideology of sudden enlightenment, she also highlights topics that make "Lidai fabao ji" distinctive: formless practice, the inclusion of female practitioners, the influence of Daoist metaphysics, and connections with early Tibetan Buddhism.

The "Lidai fabao ji" was unearthed in the early twentieth century in the Mogao caves at the Silk Road oasis of Dunhuang in northwestern China. Discovery of the Dunhuang manuscripts has been compared with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as these documents have radically changed our understanding of medieval China and Buddhism. A crucial volume for students and scholars, "The Mystique of Transmission" offers a rare glimpse of a lost world and fills an important gap in the timeline of Chinese and Buddhist history.

General

Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2007
First published: March 2007
Authors: Wendi Adamek (Lecturer in Buddhist Studies)
Dimensions: 232 x 155 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13664-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > Zen Buddhism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > Zen Buddhism
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LSN: 0-231-13664-1
Barcode: 9780231136648

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